Scientists studying the effect of drought and heat waves on grass growth have found that it matters when during the year these events take place, and that each month yields a different effect. “A major challenge in studying climate change is separating the effects of long-term trends from interannual variation,” says Saran Twombly, program director for [...]
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Every time a major heat wave, drought or hurricane occurs, journalists call up climate scientists to ask if global warming is the cause. And nearly every climate scientist has the same stock response: while global warming can make e... Read Post
Does it matter whether long periods of hot weather, such as last year's heat wave that gripped the U.S. Midwest, happen in June or July, August or September? Scientists studying the subtle effects of heat waves and droughts say that... Read Post
Based on more than 25 years of data, ecologists looked at how droughts and heat waves affect grass growth during different months of the year. Read Post